Windward Is Akamai About Tobacco Risks
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Del.icio.usThe Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii will recognize two Windward groups Oct. 28 at its awards dinner in Honolulu.
* The 2009 Outstanding Organization Award goes to Castle Medical Center, Wellness & Lifestyle Medicine Center. The hospital’s smoking cessation programs and Wellness on Wheels campaign are key to its success in helping smokers quit, the coalition stated, noting that “its commitment to caring for those who seek to free themselves from tobacco use remains steadfast.” In 2005, for example, Castle also was the first Oahu hospital to go smoke-free.
* Da Braddahs, the Windward comedy team of James Roche and Anthony Silva, will receive the Kanalu Award for their “outstanding contributions to furthering tobacco control efforts” - through American Lung Association’s “Music with a Message” and for public service announcements aimed at Native Hawaiian youths. (The award itself honors the late George Terry Kanalu Young, whose family lives in Kaneohe.)
Other awardees are KITV, U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie and Katine Kawachi of KWXX FM on the Big Island.
For details about the benefit dinner, call Diane Lobre at 946-6851, ext. 200.
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